[eeue56]

At university, my co-founders and I took over teaching a few modules. We were eager to find a larger pool of students that had useful skills for a company, rather than those versed in just theoretical knowledge and Java.

To provide the students with the skills they'd need in their career, we taught them how to use real world tooling: how to make a website from a design, how to use Git, how to write backend code, identifying security risks, how to use editors that weren't JEdit or Netbeans, how to use PhoneGap, how to deploy to a server, how to use Unix.

As a result of our training, we managed to get some great students on-board. No longer were we surrounded by students who could make some ServiceFactoryBean, but instead ones who were fully capable of making real things in a real company.

It's awesome to see that MIT has a similar programme - covering all the skills that we actually did teach. Too much of university is spent theorising and not spent making students employable.